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“We don't know what we have here. There might be something.”
Thomas Campbell
“I think of those weavers working through the damp Christmas months to get the tapestry done in six months per the contract in Florence, and clinging to every minute of daylight. Probably they had the artist breathing down their neck.”
“Major Whiting wanted us to do this before school started, both for safety and to send a message.”
“Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.”
“This was not the very finest quality of weaving with gold thread, of the kind that was being produced for the leading courts of the day by the Brussels workshops. Rather, it reflects the sort of medium-quality tapestries that the Florence workshops were producing at this time for use in the Medici palaces. Still, the pride they must have felt, knowing this would be destined to go to Como. Tapestry was such an important part of the theatrical presentation of the day. It was the whole stage set against which the formal side of life was acted out.”
“We saw that the Williston paper said that their goalie could be the best in the West and that inspired us a little bit.”
“Last year's loss in the semifinals was definitely a heartbreaker. We know what we are capable of. We need to come out and work hard.”
“We came into the region 8-0 and then lost to Cedar Shoals, that got us down, and then lost to Jackson County 11-10, both those were one run games. We were 1-5 before this game. We needed this one and we'll take whatever we can get.”
“That would be important to us to honor our dad.”
“While the battle rages loud and long, / And the stormy winds do blow.”
